Baltimore City police told 11 News a man was shot once in the stomach shortly before 5 p.m. in an area between the student center and the theater. He was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he is listed in critical but stable condition.

Even classes at the school were canceled, but they are expected to be open for regular business and classes Thursday morning.

"Our SWAT team was here. They cleared the building and rendered it safe, at which point officials at Morgan were able to let the campus move around freely again," said Baltimore City Detective Donny Moses.

Neither the victim nor the shooter were Morgan State students, according to university officials, and they said they don't believe the incident was random.

"(There was) one shooter, one victim. They were known to each other. There was some kind of relationship, but it definitely looks like it was some kind of targeted shooting," Morgan spokesman Clint Coleman told 11 News. "We believe the young man was targeted by the shooter."

An alert sent to the campus community immediately after the incident asked people to avoid the student center. The alert initially said the incident was a stabbing, but minutes later, students like Devin Gavin received a different alert that said, "Lockdown. Shooting confirmed. Emergency. Stay indoors and away from windows."

Authorities shut down parking garage exits, and barricades were also set up around the scene.

Police said the gunman is a tall black man with a faded haircut, and he wore a white T-shirt. No other description was provided.

The circumstances of the shooting are still under investigation, but officials said it appears that some kind of off-campus confrontation spilled into the student center.

Witnesses "heard a verbal exchange between the two, which (indicated) they knew each other, and this was about something that had apparently occurred earlier," Coleman said Wednesday night.

He said he didn't know what the two were doing on campus, but said it's hard to deal with these sorts of situations.

"It's very difficult. Obviously, we're a state institution. We're a public university. We have an open campus. It's not physically possible to shut this campus down or put bars all around it," he said.

"This is Baltimore, so those kinds of things are going to happen. It's surprising that it happened on campus, but I'm not too worried about it," said student Devin Gavin.

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